• sloppychops@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Would it help to have electronics, phone included, in your checked baggage?

    If not, then people might have to consider smuggling their phone through in a brick of coke. Or put it in a condom and swallow it.

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      12 days ago

      When you enter the US, you have to claim your checked baggage as part of the process of going through customs, then re-check your bags if you’re continuing on a domestic flight.

      If you have a device in your checked bag:

      1. you’re violating the safety rule about not having lithium batteries in checked luggage.

      2. if you’re asked if you are travelling with a phone and you lie and say you don’t have one, then if they search your bags and find it, then they’ll have strong evidence that you lied to a federal officer, which is a crime.

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      12 days ago

      The airline will have issues with you putting lithium batterys in the hold. This has caused fires and taken planes down. Have to keep elecronics in the cabin where the user and crew can respond on they short and cause a fire.

      Your brick off columbin nose powder is safe to go in the hold.